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Originally Posted by Yuri
It depends though. Even with this incredibly liberal new zoning legislation, abolishing the disgusting mandatory setbacks and parking from the 1960's zoning law onwards that ruined SP (highrises surrounded by walls with massive and useless common areas), Jardins, the district just southwest Central SP, is as suburban as Atlanta and remained intact. Massive mansions that look like Central Park from above, remain completely out of limits even for the lightest transformation.
São Paulo can be very NIMBY (the average paulistano, the press, call short highrises "skyscrapers" in a pejorative way), but developers are a very powerful group as well and fortunately the latter is winning with the help of the new generation of urbanists and architects that embraced urban living. NIMBYs are also actively criticizing the new construction boom by supposedly changed the "character of the neighbourhoods" (where most of constructions date the 1970's...) or saying the only add tiny apartments, but this boom that keeps prices in check. Young people starting career need a place to live and fortunately they can do it in those new buildings appearing on every corner on Central SP.
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As soon as developers propose a highrise here (or even lowrises), the NIMBY "machine" gets moving to block it by citing things like traffic, shadows, crime, infrastructure, or neighborhood character. Many of us here on this forum battle these people on social media and other outlets.